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	<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: #010101">PyScripter 
	originally started as a lightweight IDE designed to to serve the purpose of 
	providing a strong scripting solution for Delphi applications, complementing 
	the excellent </span></font><a href="https://github.com/pyscripter/python4delphi">
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	<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: #0000ff"><u>Python 
	for Delphi</u></span></font></a><font color="#010101" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: #010101"> 
	(P4D) components.&nbsp; However, and with the encouragement of the P4D creator 
	Morgan Martinez and a few early users, it has now evolved into a full-featured 
	stand-alone Python IDE.&nbsp; It is built in </span></font>
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	<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: #0000ff"><u>Delphi</u></span></font></a><font color="#010101" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: #010101"> 
	using P4D and the </span></font><a href="https://github.com/SynEdit/SynEdit">
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	<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: #0000ff"><u>SynEdit</u></span></font></a><font color="#010101" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: #010101"> 
	component but is extensible using Python scripts.&nbsp; Currently, it is only 
	available for Microsoft Windows operating systems and&nbsp; features a modern 
	user-interface. Being built in a compiled language is rather snappier than some 
	of the other IDEs <img alt="graphic" border="0" src="pyscripter1.PNG" style="width:1.00em; height:1.00em" ></span></font><font color="#010101" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: #010101">&nbsp; 
	and provides an extensive blend of </span></font><a href="mainfeatures.htm">
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	that make it a productive Python development environment.</span></font></div>
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	<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: #010101"><i>Why yet 
	another Python IDE?</i></span></font></div>
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	<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: #010101">There are 
	many </span></font><a href="http://www.python.org">
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	<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: #0000ff"><u>Python</u></span></font></a><font color="#010101" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: #010101"> 
	Integrated Development Environments around.&nbsp; And quite a few good ones, 
	for example <a href="https://pythonhosted.org/spyder/">Spyder</a>,&nbsp; </span></font><a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/spe/" target="_blank">
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	<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: #0000ff"><u>SPE</u></span></font></a><font color="#010101" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: #010101"> 
	and </span></font><a href="https://eric-ide.python-projects.org/">
	<font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">
	<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: #0000ff"><u>Eric3</u></span></font></a><font color="#010101" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: #010101">, 
	not to mention IDLE which is included in the standard Python distribution.&nbsp; 
	So it is reasonable to ask why bother to develop yet another Python IDE.&nbsp; 
	The short answer is for the fun of it!&nbsp; The long answer relates to the 
	ambition to create a Python IDE that is competitive with commercial Windows-based 
	IDEs available for other languages.</span></font></div>
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